July 29, 2016 – – SRB Solutions, a San Diego, CA-based online marketing company headed by Stephanie Beck, wants to highlight how the new Twitter announcements can affect the online marketing efforts of healthcare practitioners. Recent Twitter announcements have been the talk of the internet marketing world for the past few weeks. Twitter will be making changes to simplify Tweets, and those changes basically allow users to more effectively use the 140 allowed characters in each Tweet.

“Practitioners will find it easier to reach people given the changes that Twitter has made,” Stephanie Beck says. “There are going to be so many more opportunities to get your entire thoughts into your Tweets because of the changes that effectively expand beyond the 140-character limit of Tweets.”

Twitter announced that in the coming months, changes will be made to simplify Tweets, and that media attachments will no longer be counted as characters, meaning that the allotment for 140 characters will no longer be reduced when adding attachments like GIFs, photographs, Quote Tweets, polls, and videos.

“When replying to Tweets,” Beck says, “The @names will also no longer count toward the character count, which gives healthcare practitioners much more freedom to carry on thoughtful conversations, without worrying so much about cramming their thoughts into those tiny little posts.”

Beck explains that as indicated at https://blog.twitter.com/express-even-more-in-140-characters, the changes are set to directly affect practices in a positive way. She explains the new Retweet button that Twitter is implementing as well, and how it can be helpful to healthcare practitioners who want to share reflections or their own quotes, so that they can ensure their followers are seeing what they want them to see.

Another dramatic change Twitter is implementing is that it will no longer be necessary to use the @ convention when indicating a username. All new Tweets beginning with a username will now reach all of its followers. Beck explains that this will significantly help healthcare practices to ensure that specials and promotions are seen by their chosen targeted audiences.

SRB Solutions specializes in online marketing for healthcare practitioners, such as chiropractors, acupuncturists and massage therapists. Those who are interested can check the company’s official website, where a complete list of the services offered by the company, as well as other helpful information can be found.

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Stephanie Beck
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DALLAS, TX July 29, 2016 /Kratos Capital – Newswire / — Kratos Capital, a leading mergers and acquisitions advisor for privately-held, middle-market businesses, is pleased to announce the acquisition of its client, Filling Machines & Systems, Inc. (“FM&S”), by Mangrove Equity Partners, Tampa, FL, co-sponsored by Prisma Group, Raleigh, NC. Two portfolio companies, Meheen Manufacturing and Inline Filling Systems, Inc. headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota were acquired. The acquisition closed on June 30, 2016. Filling Machines & Systems, Inc. is a manufacturing platform making comprehensive lines of branded as well as customized products for the craft beverage industry globally and the specialty liquid industry.

Principal Josh Bammel led the Kratos Capital deal team that advised FM&S on the transaction. “These are great companies, which have benefited from the institutionalization of smart capital. It was a privilege to work on this transaction with the sellers and buyers, and to see both parties benefit from a neoclassical economic relationship,” said Bammel.

FM&S brings decades of experience and is globally recognized, having sold systems in all 50 U.S. states and customers in over 50 countries worldwide. Learn more by visiting www.meheen.com and www.inlinefillingsystems.com

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About Kratos Capital – VALUES, CHARACTER & COMMITMENT TO OUR CLIENTS
KRATOS CAPITAL has experience in a variety of strategic liquidity solutions including sales, divestitures, and mergers. Kratos also works extensively with companies in core and niche industries. The KC deal team is an experienced, highly effective team specialized in managing transactions with capitalized values from $5 million to $200 million. The firm provides industry tailored investment banking expertise, aiming to help owners maximize the value of their investment of time, money, and hard work. Every client is represented by seasoned bankers, who have a wealth of knowledge and experience. Kratos bankers comprise an aggregate of well over one billion dollars in completed transactions, complimented by 75 years of combined deal making on behalf of the private middle market. No two companies are ever alike. Their exit strategy shouldn’t be either.

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July 29, 2016 – Online auto insurance expert, Shop Insurance Canada, says that the safety of autonomous vehicles is still untested in the real world, so the industry should wait and see before offering predictions of driverless cars being mandatory. However, the outlet says vehicle manufacturers should be required by law to include life-saving telematics in all vehicles, something the Ontario government is enforcing.

Ontario has recently presented a bill that would allow the province to mandate that carmakers include life-saving telematics devices in their vehicles, and other autonomous measures to lower accident rates. With fully autonomous vehicles expected in the next five to 10 years, some are arguing that at least some levels of the technology will be required by law.

Kate Browne, senior vice president for Swiss Re, said during ARC Group Canada’s annual seminar that driverless vehicles save lives and the technology should be a requirement in the future.

“Basically, it’s going to be a moral imperative,” Browne, keynote speaker for Unintended Consequences: Who is at risk in a world where technology is ahead of regulation?

“These cars save lives,” she said. “Eventually, I believe, the technology is going to be mandated. We’re going to be required to have this technology,” she added.

“Right now, we have mechanical drive, combustion engine, oil-based, stand-alone, personally owned, human-operated cars. Where are we headed? Electronic drive, electric motors, fueled by diverse sources such as electricity and solar, shared and driverless,” Browne predicted.

It is worth noting that the safety of autonomous vehicles has already been speculated upon, with some saying the tech has a lot to prove to show it is safer in dangerous driving conditions. Shop Insurance Canada agrees and says the viability of autonomous vehicles should be explored before thinking too far ahead.

“These vehicles are not on the market yet. When they are we will be able to see whether they bring the wide-ranging changes to safety predicted. It is certainly likely that accident rates will drop significantly and insurance premiums will fall, but it is not guaranteed.”

The company adds that early stumbling blocks could hurt autonomous vehicles and that some consumers will not like to have their right to drive taken away.

“It is unclear how consumers will react to the first collisions involving autonomous vehicles, but it is likely that it will be negatively,” Shop Insurance Canada says. “It is often ignored that some people simply like to drive, so having that ability taken away could result in a consumer backlash.”

Browne correctly says humans are currently responsible for the majority of collisions and removing the human element will guarantee a decline in accident rates.

“Human beings are responsible for more than 99% of all car accidents and one of the reasons is we simply don’t see as well as machines do. The human vision is about 30 metres forward, while the LIDAR system, which is the sensors on the Google car, can see 300 metres in front of them.”

Browne did admit there were hurdles to overcome, especially in the way autonomous vehicles are sold, with software companies and manufacturers likely to collaborate.

“Traditionally, software has not been considered a product. It’s not subject to product liability law. You don’t manufacture it, you code it; you don’t sell it, you license it,” she told attendees. “So it’s not going to be an easy fit,” she noted, but added she is confident a solution will be found that works for everybody.

About Shop Insurance Canada
Shop Insurance Canada is a Toronto based company that specializes in delivering the best auto insurance products to customers around Ontario and Canada. The online quoting tool uses an engine that is easy to use and accurate enough to deliver the best auto insurance quotes from over 25 of Canada’s leading providers. Shop Insurance Canada also offers expert advice on the auto insurance industry, as well as guides and news to help customers find the best deal possible.

Shop Insurance Canada
1003-60 Bathrust St.
Toronto, Ontario
M5V 2P4
Canada
416-913-0151

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Shop Insurance Canada
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July 29, 2016 – Educational publisher Simply Charly is pleased to announce the launch of a new series of brief yet comprehensive biographies exploring the fascinating-and often misunderstood-lives of some of history’s greatest authors, scientists, politicians, philosophers, and artists.

Written by prominent scholars, academics, and other experts, the “Great Lives” series is specifically designed for a general audience. It offers engaging and accessible introductions to many of the men and women whose genius profoundly changed their world and, in many cases, ours. The books not only illuminate their subjects’ lives, but, especially in the case of writers, also offer significant insights into their bodies of work.

“People love to discover and explore the lives of history’s great men and women,” says Charles Carlini, founder of Simply Charly and CEO of Carlini Media. “However, we’ve found that they relate better to books that are concise and written in an interesting, attention-grabbing manner. Ours are exactly that: brief, but comprehensive and compelling. And that’s why we used the word ‘simply’ in the titles.”

The first slate of books-which includes Simply Darwin, Simply Dirac, Simply Dickens, Simply Faulkner, Simply Joyce and Simply Wittgenstein-were released in digital form in April 2016, with print versions to follow in August. Additional titles in the series, focusing on Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Wagner, René Descartes, Virginia Woolf, and many others, will be published later this year.

The e-books are priced at $7.99 and paperbacks at $8.99.

The series has garnered considerable advance praise and critical acclaim. David Paroissien, editor of Dickens Quarterly, called Paul Schlicke’s Simply Dickens an “eminently accessible portrait, expertly blending the contours of Dickens’s multivalent activities with commentary on his development as a novelist.”

Similarly, David Sepkoski, Research Scholar at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, said that Simply Darwin, whose author Michael Ruse is one of the world’s foremost experts on the history of evolution, “provides an entertaining, stimulating, and provocative account of the life and legacy of Charles Darwin. This is one of the best short summaries of the topic available.”

For more information and reviews, please visit http://simplycharly.com/books.

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Simply Charly offers students, teachers and other interested parties an original, one-stop portal to a wealth of information about some of the world’s most prominent historical figures. The site’s mission is to become the leading online source for everything our visitors want to know about the groundbreaking individuals we feature.

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Simply Charly
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IT job market improves with 34,200 jobs added in June and average IT salaries edging up to $82,775

July 29, 2016 – Park City – UT – www.e-janco.com – Janco’s latest IT Salary Survey has been released and along with its analysis of the latest employment data from the BLS shows the IT job market has reversed most of the losses in IT jobs which occurred in May. In addition, the Mid-Year 2016 IT Salary shows that the median salary for IT professionals now is $82,775.

The CEO of Janco, M.V. Janulaitis said, “The trend in the creation of new IT jobs Janco’s continues to below last year’s. However, there was a significant rebound from the prior months IT job market growth’s moving average to a 0.44% from a negative 0.51% growth rate (a +0.95% favorable move).”

Janco interviewed over 75 CIOs in the last several weeks as part of its semi-annual salary survey ( http://www.e-janco.com/salary.htm ) data collection process. CIOs are not as optimistic this year as at the same time last year. A preliminary hiring forecast by job levels within the IT function shows that long term hiring plans for both IT Staff and “contractors/consultants” is flat.

The CEO added, “There could potentially be a net decrease in the size of the IT Job Market in 2016. We have already adjusted our best case forecast for net new IT jobs for the balance of this year and have changed our forecast to an estimated net new IT job to be created to 76,500.” He added, “Many companies are cutting back on contractors and consultants. They are new jobs being created in the application development sector of the IT job market. We feel this trend will continue until the November election in the US and thru the 4th quarter of this year.”

Janco interviewed over 96 CIOs in the last several weeks as part of its Mid-Year 2016 IT Salary Survey ( http://www.e-janco.com/salary.htm ) data collection process. CIOs are less optimistic this year as at the same time last year. A preliminary hiring forecast by job levels within the IT function shows that long term hiring plans for both IT Staff and “contractors/consultants” is flat.

The CEO also said, “On the plus side, CIOs report that CFOs are not completely adverse incremental spending for IT related activities that have operational support and have a good ROI. We have found no IT initiatives that are being approved to upgrade technology for the sake of IT’s desire to have the latest new thing.”

Janulaitis stated, “The current economic picture, especially with factors like the US November election and BREXIT, are not conducive for increased IT spending and job market expansion. In periods like the one we are going thru, all companies are cautious and often see cost containment as the prudent direction to follow. The focus for this caution is on IT infrastructure “cost center” spending in areas like training, software – hardware upgrades, and elimination of non-essential consultants, staff and IT initiatives. In addition, as cost cut-savings technique, when “baby-boomers” retire many of those positions are not being filled.”

The CEO said, “We see that finding opportunities for IT professionals is difficult at best. Only those with the right set of experiences are even given interviews.”

The CEO also said, “On the plus side, CIOs report that CFOs are not completely adverse incremental spending for IT related activities that have operational support and have a good ROI. We have found no IT initiatives that are being approved to upgrade technology for the sake of IT’s desire to have the latest new thing.”

Janco is an international consulting firm that follows issues that concerns CIOs and CFOs and publishes a series of IT and business infrastructure HandiGuides® and Templates including a Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Template, Security Template and its semi-annual IT Salary Survey.

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Victor Janulaitis
Janco Associates, Inc.

http://www.e-janco.com

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